A "Quitter Penalty" system is currently in development, and you can expect an update on the deployment of this system in the New Year

Continued improvements to Iron Banner and Faction Rallies, including uniqueness of rewards

The next Iron Banner and Faction Rally will introduce improvements in both these areas (see the December Update Details section below for more info)

Changes to make the mod economy more interesting and impactful

The Gunsmith will have some updates to how Mods are acquired (see the December Update Details section below for more info)

We are exploring more updates to this system in the New Year

Ongoing improvements to Exotics, including adjustments to reduce instances of duplication

We plan to tune under-performing Exotics and will continue to make targeted updates and improvements

Duplication protection will be added for Exotics in the New Year

New ways to spend surplus currency and materials (looking at you Legendary Shards)

Players will be able to spend Tokens and Legendary Shards on Vendor inventory (see the December Update Details section below for more info)

Xur will have new items, as well (see the December Update Details section below for more info)

An emote interface that allows players to equip Salty, Spicy Ramen, Six Shooter, and Flip Out all at the same time

Emote interface improvements are still on the list, and you can expect an update on the development of this system in the New Year

There has been plenty of drama surrounding Destiny 2 over the last week. The community discovered that the game would throttle XP and Bungie responded by saying that this was not the case, but an effect of disabling a scaling mechanism without announcing it.

The XP issue has not yet been fully resolved, as it will require some rebalancing, but Bungie is working to provide a timeline and specifics. They have already made some adjustments, but will continue to adjust XP display, gains and more.

Bungie has recognized that the development team has not been too open on what they are up to and Bungie is claiming that they will be resolving this, as well as addressing the issues that players find and bringing a new list of improvements.

Bungie took their blog to talk about these items, writing "Our team has been reading feedback and working on updates to improve the game. We’ve also been reading some tough criticism about our lack of communication, and we agree we need to be more open."

To continue their theme of openness, Bungie detailed their upcoming updates, starting with next months (below) and ending with a few that will come in 2018 (following page).

In the months to come, Bungie will be focusing "providing reasons to log in and play." This goal will start in December in two updates, one on December 5th and the other on December 12th. This update will look to achieve the following goals:

Deepen Rewards for advanced players

Provide More Player Control over obtaining rewards

Make Shards Useful by adding things to use them for

Provide General Quality fixes wherever possible

The updates will contain the following:

DECEMBER 5

Armor Ornaments will be added to some existing Armor sets for more visual customization without losing your Shaders or Mods

These ornaments will be unlocked by completing objectives specific to each set, and are permanently unlocked account-wide, just like Exotic Weapon ornaments

They will be applied to the base pieces that you may already have collected, and can now unlock on Vendors if not

In Season 2, the following sets have ornaments unlocked in their respective activities:

Vanguard Faction Armor

Crucible Faction Armor

Trials of the Nine Armor

Iron Banner Armor

Dead Orbit Armor

Future War Cult Armor

New Monarchy Armor

Eater of Worlds Raid Lair Armor

Banshee has some updates on the Weapon and Armor Mod front:

For players wanting to clear some Mod inventory space, Rare quality Mods will dismantle into Gunsmith Materials and have a chance to produce Legendary quality Mod Components

For players chasing specific Legendary Mods (including Legendary Kinetic Mods), Banshee will offer a selection of specific Legendary Mods for direct purchase, with a selection that will rotate daily and cost Legendary Shards and Mod Components

For players chasing a world Legendary or looking for Masterworks, Master Rahool will sell some of his rumored hoard of Legendary Engrams for Legendary Shards

Changes affecting Reputation Tokens:

Daily Challenges will have Reputation Token awards increased across the board

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